The Victorian illustrated book / edited by Richard Maxwell.
Published / Created:
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, c2002.
Physical Description:
xxx, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Walter Scott, historical fiction, and the genesis of the Victorian illustrated book / Richard Maxwell -- Illustrations of time: watches, dials, and clocks in Victorian pictures / Steven Dillon -- Serial illustration and storytelling in David Copperfield / Robert L. Patten -- Maps and metaphors: topographical representation and the sense of place in late-Victorian fiction / Simon Joyce -- Literal illustration in Victorian print / Herbert F. Tucker -- William Morris before Kelmscott: poetry and design in the 1860s / Elizabeth K. Helsinger -- Beyond reading: Kelmscott and the modern / Jeffrey Skoblow -- Aubrey Beardsley "embroiders" the literary text / Nicholas Frankel -- Alvin Langdon Coburn's frontispieces to Henry James's New York edition: pictures of an institutional imaginary / Charles Harmon -- City scenes: commerce, utopia, and the birth of the picture book / Katie Trumpener -- Afterword: the destruction, rebirth, and apotheosis of the Victorian illustrated book / Richard Maxwell.
Subject Terms:
Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Illustration of books, Victorian -- Great Britain.